Every year at CES, there's a fleet of new robot vacuums that are announced which promise to keep your home cleaner, avoid objects, and pick up dirt and mop your floors better than before. However, at CES 2025, it feels like there's been a leap when it comes to innovation in robot vacuums.

The Eureka J15 Max Ultra is a clear upgrade over previous J15 robot vacuums, with FlexiRazor, night vision, and 22,000 Pa of suction power.

The Eufy Clean E20 is essentially a “core” vacuum with varying attachments, one of which is a robot body. It starts with the base station, which hails a sizeable 350mL litter box with an accompanying self-emptying system to clear out the robot once it’s performed its duty.

Inside the body of the Saros Z70 is a telescoping robotic arm with a claw at the end. If the robot vac detects something like a sock, shoe, or other small object, it can automatically extend its arm, pick up the object, and move it to a specified location, like a laundry basket.

It turns out that Roborock isn’t the only company that brought a robot vacuum with a mechanical arm to CES 2025. Rival company Dreame, which unveiled its stair-climbing robot vacuum earlier in the week,

Robot vacuums already take one of the most tedious household tasks off your hands, and with Roborock’s latest innovation, they’re now poised to tackle another chore: picking up after oneself.

Roborock unveiled a feature that it hopes could help its vacuums dethrone the Roomba: an arm. This is Saros Z70, the autonomous vacuum that comes equipped with a five-axis arm that unfolds from the top of the vacuum to pick up obstacles using onboard cameras and sensors.